It wasn't until 1998, a year after Amazon became a public company, that Bezos became a billionaire. The company had only recently started offering CDs online as an extension of its book business. Did ...

In the early days of Amazon, 20 investors invested $50,000 each for a 1% stake. Google was one of the first companies that Bezos invested in in 1998. In 2004, he invested $250,000 in the stock and ...